Itou's are nice, if a bit overboard. Still, nice! Is it your own set? It looks as though there's more than one of the same there. If so, someone must like them a lot

cclin

09-09-2012, 04:51 PM

I think those from KF's "Kitchen Knives/tools sale". super good deal from $80~$160! nice score!:doublethumbsup:

knyfeknerd

09-09-2012, 05:28 PM

Great score Craig, you deserve it!

NO ChoP!

09-09-2012, 08:09 PM

Yah, R2 is friggin' awesome steel. Sweet set....

Cutty Sharp

09-09-2012, 09:08 PM

Which other blades have you come across in R2?

Johnny.B.Good

09-09-2012, 09:37 PM

Which other blades have you come across in R2?

Tanaka (http://thebestthings.com/knives/tanaka.htm).

ThEoRy

09-09-2012, 10:49 PM

Wow good deal. Grats!

pumbaa

09-09-2012, 10:57 PM

Nice knives i want an itou, and theory dont you have a itou pairing? crazy blue or green handle or something?

Cutty Sharp

09-09-2012, 11:10 PM

Tanaka (http://thebestthings.com/knives/tanaka.htm).

Yes, that's the one! But maybe there are others too?

ThEoRy

09-10-2012, 02:32 AM

Nice knives i want an itou, and theory dont you have a itou pairing? crazy blue or green handle or something?

Yeah, I got it from Salty. It has an azurite malachite handle. Pretty cool little guy. Bugger to sharpen though. Not because of the steel, I love sharpening R2. It's the small size and shape that burns me sometimes. The edge doesn't go all the way to the handle, it sort of starts a quarter inch up. But it gets real thick from the handle then suddenly drops in and gets thin at the edge. I sometimes bang this drop part into the stone and it can take you out of the rhythm.

SpikeC

09-10-2012, 12:29 PM

When I was waiting for an Itou to come back in stock at JCK I got impatient and bought a Tanaka R2 ironwood instead. I now prefer the shapes of the Tanaka!

mano

09-18-2012, 09:02 AM

Most of the Itou's came with rough edges so I took a short slicer to 1K and 4K glass stones. No one could accuse me of being more than an adequate sharpener, but within minutes it took a terrific edge that just about fell through grapes. If this is typical of R2... incredible!